13 Jun 2018

Passions (Kira Muratova, 1994)

☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼ out of 10☼

A spiritual prequel to a phantasmagorical drama, Rita's Last Fairy Tale (Poslednyaya skazka Rity), by Renata Litvinova (who brings her quirky, somewhat endearing mannerisms to the role of a daydreaming nurse, Lilya), Kira Muratova's Passions(Uvlecheniya) acts as a floaty, jovial, off-kilter, slightly surreal farce set against the backdrop of jockeys' life, bursting with vivid imagery, existing both below and above water just like its meandering heroine, and featuring a great number of naive, Fellini-esque, characters in almost non-stop motion whose seemingly endless jabber on love, death, beauty, circus and centaurs, inter alia, proves that horses really do make us philosophers.

~Shūji Terayama~

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Nikola Gocić (born in Niš, Serbia, in 1980) is an architect by profession (or rather, by the biggest mistake in life) and a film reviewer and collagist by passion. An author of NGboo Art blog where he has been publishing his texts on cinema and showcasing his artwork, he contributed thirty articles for Taste of Cinema (during 2016 and 2017), and has lately collaborated with the filmmaker Rouzbeh Rashidi on his Experimental Film Society (EFS) Publications, as well as Film Panic magazine run by the British-Portuguese artistic duo of Daniel Fawcett and Clara Pais.
His short experimental comics has been exhibited at the Belgrade International Comics Festival and Fumetto Comic Festival in Luzern, Switzerland. In the beginning of 2018, he has fallen in love with the collage technique, and has created dozens of digital artworks since. Inspired by dreams, legends, fairy tales, folk tradition, Dadaism and Surrealism, avant-garde films, alternative music, Japanese animation, 80s Saturday-morning cartoons and even fighting games, he has been merging his numerous and often incongruous influences into his own esoteric mythology.
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